In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on.